Home invasion, beating, stabbing, arrests.

Posted by Police Line on October 23rd, 2012

A 21-year-old Dracut man was stabbed five times and a 51-year-old Dracut man was beaten with a baseball bat during a Saturday night home invasion on Greenmont Avenue that landed five men in court on major felony charges.

I heard a bit of this call on Saturday night, but it didn’t sound like a home invasion. I slipped up by not double checking on this one Saturday night!

Dracut Deputy Chief Dave Chartrand tells me officers were called to 173 Greenmont Avenue about 10 p.m., when several 911 callers reported a disturbance at the address.

Suspects fled before police arrived, but officers quickly learned several men forced their way into a back door of the home on Greenmont Avenue, stabbed the 21-year-old and beat a 51-year-old resident with a bat, all while a 51-year-old female resident hid in a bedroom.

Both victims were treated and released from Lowell General Hospital with non life-threatening injuries.

Police quickly learned the attackers were known to the victims, and that the home invasion was apparently meant to be revenge for an earlier “physical encounter” between the 21-year-old and one of the attackers.

“It appears that both incidents may have been fueled by drug-related disputes,” Chartrand wrote in an email.

Police found one of the suspects, Kyle Geoffroy, 20, of 209 Nashua Road, Dracut, a short distance away and arrested him following a traffic stop.

Detectives got warrants for the other four men and arrested them on Monday.